5. While this propaganda is likely effective in the heartland

it's likely countereffective on both coasts and in major cities throughout the country.

The whole thing makes me furious, especially since it's the quickest way to get GOP mayors into those cities, and the GOPs would be worse.

If those mayors are capable of catching a passing clue, this should be it: local PDs need to be reined in severely. No matter how loudly the wealthy scream about the "dirty fucking hippies" camping downtown, the health department should be the ones overseeing health and making sanitation suggestions. Sending the PD in to clean them out is entirely reminiscent of burning Hoovervilles in the last Depression.

In the long term, it will also likely be just the way that worked out, with the public turning harshly away from the PTB because the PTB have proven themselves to be the public's enemy.